EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, April
2, 1959 Vol. C718
LOCAL
NEWS
APRIL FOOL’S PRANKS ABOUND
East Farewell – The seniors at Regional High School are a fun
bunch. They also have a bit of a wicked streak and both traits showed up
yesterday on April Fool’s Day. A group purchased a box of Whoopee cushions and
gave them out to the rest of the class. Many teachers started the day with an
embarrassing “salute” when the first sat down in the morning. Another group
somehow managed to leave a fully assembled 30 foot high silo on the fifty yard
line of the football field. This group is suspected to be the clandestine pranksters
that managed to take apart and reassemble an East Farewell Transit trolley last
summer. Although they were never identified as the perpetrators it is generally
believed that the senior science club
members were deeply involved.
Even though the
field was still covered with snow the pranksters plowed a path from the street
and carefully cleared the area around the silo so there were no footprints
left. When the school started on Wednesday the windows overlooking the field
were filled with excited students and faculty looking, pointing and laughing.
Principal Harris made an announcement mid-morning that he was expecting “volunteers”
to come forward to help with the dismantling of the silo.
April Fool’s
Day has never been a big event in East Farewell, save for the incidental prank
played on a personal level. It seems the Regional
High School seniors have change all that and set the bar for the upcoming
classes. The bar is fairly high, too.
1959 April
Fool’s Day prank – Silo on the football field
SPORTS
COUGARS DRAW THE WILDCATS IN
THE FIRST ROUND
East Farewell – The Cougars were happy but not elated when they
drew the Riverview Wildcats in the first round of the Playoffs. The Cougars had
won two out of three of the meetings this season. The Wildcats improved
throughout the season and were able to secure third place in the league
standings. The Cougars stood at second place at the end of the regular season.
The Corning Devils were first and the Slate Mountain Miners were fourth. The
Playoffs are held over a two week period with the first round being played last
Saturday. The finals will be next Saturday in a neutral location, the Fort Lee
gymnasium.
The Cougars
took the floor on Saturday with a confident but not cocky attitude. The last
game they played against the Wildcats was a strong performance but their latest
and last season game was a lackluster showing that raised some concerns from
Coach Wilson. All the Coach’s concerns were dispelled after the tip-off. The
Cougars jumped out to a 14-4 lead with center Jimmy Hawkins collecting 8. The
“Big Three” (Hawkins, Tasker and Mitchell) took control of the center of the
floor and the Wildcats spent most of the game trying to penetrate it. The
Cougars were able to hold the lead except for three minutes at the end of the
first half when the Wildcats outside shooters, Di Angelo and Dimero, got hot and the Wildcats rattled off
12 straight points giving the Wildcats a 32-28 lead. The first half ended with
the Wildcats on top 32-30. The lead was to be short-lived, though When the
Cougars came out in the second half they reestablished their inside dominance
and started guarding Dimero and Di Angelo closer and retook the lead for good
with in the first five minutes of the second half. The game was never a blowout;
the Wildcats would fall back then claw back only to be beaten down again. The
game ended with the Cougars scoring the final four points and winning, 54-50.
In the second
game the Corning devils pulled out a win against a surprisingly gritty Slate
Mountain Miners, 60-58. The Miners gave the usually over powering Devils a
scare and played right up until the last basket dropped in from a beautiful
twisting under the basket layup by Corning’s lead player, Matt Drew. The win
sets up a matchup between the Devils and the Cougars next Saturday. The final
will be played at the Fort Lee gymnasium beginning at 3:00PM.
1959
Regional Playoffs
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Riverview Wildcats
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Corning Devils
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Corning Devils
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E. Farewell Cougars
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E. Farewell Cougars
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Slate Mntn. Miners
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1959 Playoff
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NATIONAL NEWS
REDS SEAL OFF SOVIET UNION, WEST RESPONDS IN
KIND – CHURCHILL ROBBED - GALLUP POLL PICKS KENNEDY, BARELY
Without
warning - Russia sealed off virtually the entire Soviet Union from western
diplomats. In retaliation, the United States posted a similar temporary travel
ban on Russian diplomats. The action adds to East-West tension over Berlin. The
NATO Council firmly endorsed the Western Big Three’s German policy and
warns the Communists to keep their hands off the free allied sector of Berlin.
The big three are the U.S., Germany and France.
Sir
Winston Churchill’s town house is ransacked by burglars who made off with furs
and jewels valued at $28,000. No one was home. The loot included several boxes
of the ex-prime minister’s big cigars.
In
a Gallup Poll - Sen. John Kennedy pulls up slightly on Adlai Stevenson as the
choice of rank-and-file Democrats for the 1960 nomination:
Sen.
John F. Kennedy - 28%
Gov.
Adlai Stevenson - 27%
Sen.
Estes Kefauver - 12%
Sen.
Lyndon Johnson - 9%
Sen.
Stuart Symington - 5%
Others
- 11%
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